How to Install OpenEBS using StackPointCloud Trusted Charts?

What is StackPointCloud Trusted Charts?

StackPointCloud (SPC) introduced a concept of Trusted Charts, a list of validated Helm Charts provided by its partners to quickly spin up a solution in a Kubernetes cluster. Helm Charts helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application.

Previously, I wrote about few different ways of getting OpenEBS up and running on different cloud vendors. Using Helm Chart is one of the available options to deploy OpenEBS. OpenEBS Helm Charts were available since v.5.0 both on Github and as a packaged chart. Recently SPC included OpenEBS into their Trusted Charts repo and made it one-click easy for its customers.

Adding OpenEBS to Your Kubernetes Cluster

Once the Kubernetes cluster is up on Digital Ocean with functional Helm, scroll down to the Solutions tab and click on Add Solution button.

Click on Add Solutions, and select Trusted Charts.

From the list above select OpenEBS.

Release Name is randomly generated every time. If you want to use OpenEBS example workloads provided in OpenEBS repos without any modification then use default as NameSpace. Otherwise, you need to modify the namespace for workloads you deploy and make sure to use the same name.

Click on Install to deploy OpenEBS on your cluster.

Note: Default settings assume that RBAC is enabled. If you disabled RBAC while you are configuring your provider previously then set rbacEnable: false otherwise use default values.

State field should be green after OpenEBS is successfully added.

Now your cluster is ready; you can run your workloads on [cci]openebs-standard[cci] and other predefined storage classes.

To confirm, click on Kubernetes Dashboard. This will bring up your Kubernetes Dashboard UI in a new window. You will find all predefined OpenEBS Storage Classes here under Storage Classes section.

Now you are ready to deploy your stateful workloads.

Take a look at my previous articles on step-by-step instructions for deploying few popular stateful workloads such as Cassandra, Jenkins, and Postgres on OpenEBS persistent storage.

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